Carfury
Carfury is a hamlet in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is situated in Penwith approximately three miles northwest of Penzance. It is in the civil parish of Madron The 19th-century geologist Elizabeth Carne founded a school in Carfury.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Cornwall, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Carfury, Cornwall”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boskednan stone circle and Ding Dong mines.
Boskednan stone circle
Archaeological site
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boskednan stone circle is a partially restored prehistoric stone circle near Boskednan, around 4 miles northwest of the town of Penzance in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
Ding Dong mines
Archaeological site
Photo: Malcolm Kewn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Ding Dong mines lie in an old and extensive mining area in the parish of Madron, in Penwith, Cornwall. They are about two miles north east of the St Just to Penzance road and look over Mount's Bay and St Michael's Mount to the south west.
Mulfra Quoit
Mulfra Quoit is a Neolithic dolmen in the county of Cornwall in England. It stands on Mulfra Hill to the north of the hamlet of Mulfra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boskednan and Bodrifty.
Boskednan
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boskednan is a hamlet near Mulfra Hill northwest of Penzance in west Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Madron. The Boskednan stone circle, also called the Nine Maidens of Boskednan, is nearby.
Bodrifty
Hamlet
Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bodrifty is the modern name of an Iron Age village, now in ruins, in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 700 yards west of Mulfra Hill in Penwith District, 3 miles northwest of Penzance and 1.5 miles southwest of Porthmeor, on the high ground of the watershed between the Atlantic and the English Channel.
Mulfra
Hamlet
Photo: David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mulfra is a hamlet in the parish of Madron, Cornwall, England and is on the southern slope of Mulfra Hill. Nearby is the Scheduled monument, Mulfra Quoit, which is a portal dolmen, i.e. a ceremonial and funerary monument dating from the early or middle Neolithic period, probably in use from 3500 to 2600 BC.
Carfury
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Madron, Cornwall, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.15258° or 50° 9′ 9″ northLongitude
-5.57692° or 5° 34′ 37″ westElevation
535 feet (163 metres)Open location code
9C2P5C3F+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 29172116OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Carfury” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Carfury”
- Cornish: “Karnfuri”
- Dutch: “Carfury”
- French: “Carfury”
- Irish: “Carfury”
- Polish: “Carfury”
- Welsh: “Carfury”
- Welsh: “Karnfuri”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Trythall Community Primary School and Tredinnick Engine House (Ding Dong Mine).
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carfury”. Photo: Rod Allday, CC BY-SA 2.0.